“If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else.”

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our ‘education’. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be.

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It’s your heart that will really keep you on tack… and nourished along the way.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free.

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides – only the heart truly binds.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.

When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.